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Available Documentation

Up to now the following documents are available which either describe the PROGRES language or its environment:

• An informal language description:
  PROGRES for Beginners (Postscript file)

• The PROGRES FAQ

• The Golden Rules

• The PROGRES language manual (version 9.x):
  Postscript file (49 pages)
  PDF file
  Framemaker hypertext document

• The complete and (in)formal report for PROGRES language, version 1.1:
  Printed book: /Schürr91b/, see list of references (in German).

• Informal description of all language extensions/modifications from version 1.1 to current version:
  Postscript-File: man/PROGRES-Nachtrag-95.ps (in German).

• A guided tour through PROGRES including INSTALLATION guide lines:
  ASCII-Text-File: man/GuidedTour.tex.

• A guided tour which describes how to generate stand-alone prototypes with tk/tcl based user interfaces:
  man/GuidedPrototyping.tex.

• A list of known bugs:
  ASCII-Text-File: man/BUGS.

• A list of recently made extensions in the PROGRES environment.

• A description how to convert old specifications into new ones (compatible with PROGRES' current version).

• Online help texts for all functions of the PROGRES environment:
  ASCII-Text-Files in directory: data/messages.
  (do not try to read the plain text version but use the PROGRES environment to read these explanations).

• All papers and technical reports mentioned in the list of references.